Sparks New Music For Amnesiacs Li’l Beethoven/Universal Music Looking for a last-minute gift for the glam rock/new wave/adventurous music fan in your life? Check out New Music for Amnesiacs, the five-disc box set and accompanying hardcover book [...]
Twin Forks Twin Forks Dine Alone Records The Twin Forks is a good band, but their album post-production work hinders their listeners in appreciating their real talent. Perhaps it is unfair to mention Mumford & Sons or The Lumineers, but it [...]
Islands Ski Mask Manque Music This is by far the ugliest album cover in the vast canon of popular music. It requires serious sustained effort to avoid making contact with its putrid qualities. The songs themselves, however, show a semblance of [...]
Ministry From Beer to Eternity 13th Planet After a break-up lasting a few years, industrial metal band Ministry re-emerged with their latest album From Beer to Eternity, declaring itself the ultimate Ministry comeback. Front man Al Jourgensen’s [...]
The Dodos Carrier Polyvinyl Record Co. “What does a song hold? Was it love?” is the opening question posed on Carrier, the latest LP from San Francisco-based band The Dodos. This opening lyric sets the tone for the album –solemn, thoughtful and [...]
Primitive Man Scorn Throatruiner/Mordgrimm Records Primitive Man is a huge, heavy lumbering beast of the Doom / Crust Metal variety, but completely lack any type of direction. The tracks are very vast, heavy and spacious, but the compositions [...]
Ephemeros All Hail Corrosion Seventh Rule Recordings The Portland-based, doom metal band Ephemeros delivers All Hail Corrosion, a debut album marking the beginning of a descent into eternal madness. A short, three-track work of art including [...]
The Black Rainbows I Met This Chick… EP Independent This homegrown Toronto-trio have definitely got enough boisterous charm. With their debut EP release, The Black Rainbows have created a new way to scare teens away from intercourse. I Met This [...]
Beams Just Rivers Independent The debut disc Just Rivers from Toronto indie folk/country/rock (yes, they can be classed as all three) clan Beams, is like that cup of hot chocolate that you reach for when you are in the mood for a sweet treat. [...]
Various Artists Original Soundtrack Recording – West of Memphis: Voices for Justice Sony In 1994 three men from Arkansas were tried and convicted for the ritualistic murder of three young boys in 1993. Since ’94 a debate has raged whether [...]
Devourment Conceived In Sewage Relapse Records This album is a fucking crime scene. It’s a shitty room in a roach motel decorated with arterial spray, freshly sawn limbs and disemboweled intestines. Devourment’s Conceived In Sewage is rife [...]
Kingcrow In Crescendo Sensory Records Kingcrow is the sound of the God Particle creating matter. They are an absolutely incredible Progressive Metal band hailing from Italy who seamlessly combine rich flavorful atmospheres with brilliantly [...]
Nicole Atkins Slow Phaser Oh’Mercy! Records I have a half-baked theory that music occupies space in the world. The great music, the music that continuously rewards upon repeat listening and informs and deepens this crazy human existence of [...]
ronica Falls Waiting For Something to Happen Slumberland Records On their second full-length release, U.K. Goth-poppers Veronica Falls stay true to their “aimless twenty-something” existence and belt out a melodic Indie-rock soundtrack to [...]
Alexander Spit A Breathtaking Trip To That Otherside Decon On January 29th, 2013, Decon will be dropping A Breathtaking Trip To That Otherside, Alexander Spit’s debut commercial album. Completely produced by Spit, his album features The [...]
Amor de Dias The House At Sea Merge Records Low temperatures and arctic wind chill got you down? If you can’t afford a trip to sunnier lands, let Amor de Dias take you on a trip to warmer climes. The duo’s second album, The House at Sea, has a [...]
Bleeding Rainbow Yeah Right Kanine Records Hailing from Philadelphia, Indie Rock quartet Bleeding Rainbow have come up with a passable collection of songs that blend both ambient melodies with, at times, a psychedelic dream-like feel for their [...]
Android Lust Crater Vol. 1 Independent Funded entirely by a Kickstarter campaign, Android Lust’s newest album, Crater Vol. 1, already demonstrates that the US-based Electro-Industrial artist has a dedicated fan base. Crater Vol. 1 comes on the [...]
Tegan And Sara Heartthrob Warner Music Canada By now Tegan and Sara are what you could call ‘seasoned veterans’ on Canada’s Indie scene. Their first album, Under Feet Like Ours, debuted in 1999 and the identical twins have played at festivals [...]
Local Natives Hummingbird Frenchkiss Records Sophomore slumps are a hard thing to avoid when making music; so many bands fall victim to this unfortunate phenomenon. Luckily, Local Natives isn’t one of those bands. Their highly-anticipated [...]
Mountains Centralia Thrill Jockey Come, for a story is waiting. It tells of something gentle which rose out a profound silence, in a time when simplicity and modesty ran next to one another. The gentle something is music. Never before had the [...]
Ra Ra Riot Beta Love Barsuk Records Ra Ra Riot’s debut LP, The Rhumb Line (2008), opened with a few bars of cello. Shortly thereafter a plucked violin string, followed by persistent snare. That track, “Ghost Under Rocks,” grabbed our [...]
FIDLAR FIDLAR Mom + Pop Records We all have those days where we’re feeling feisty and ready to go out and stir up some trouble. LA-based FIDLAR’s new self-titled release is one way to get into that mindset. This record is oozing with raw power; [...]
Bad Religion True North Epitaph Records True North is the 16th studio album from Los Angeles’ Punk Rock veterans Bad Religion. Coupled with the fact that the band is now entering its 34th year of existence, one would assume that the band is [...]
